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Psalm 132:11
The LORD has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
9Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!
10For your servant David’s sake, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
11The LORD has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
12If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
13For the LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
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The oath about David’s throne directs attention beyond one king’s lifetime to YHWH’s truthfulness and a promise he will not abandon.
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Matthew 1:1The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.The psalm promises a descendant on David’s throne, and Matthew identifies Jesus Christ as the son of David.
Genesis 3:15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”Both passages record God speaking about offspring, though Genesis concerns hostility and injury rather than David’s throne.
Luke 1:32He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,David’s throne is the specific link: the psalm promises it to his descendant, and Luke says God will give it to Jesus.
Psalm 89:35Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.Both verses describe God’s oath to David and insist that his sworn word is truthful.
2 Samuel 7:12When your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish …Both passages promise that David’s own offspring will succeed him, with God establishing the descendant’s rule.
Deuteronomy 28:11The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the …Both use “fruit of your body” for descendants and mention a divine oath, though Deuteronomy concerns prosperity in the promised land.
Psalm 110:4The LORD has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”Both psalms stress that the LORD has sworn and will not reverse his word, concerning a throne here and priesthood there.
Psalm 89:3–4“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,Both passages name David as the recipient of God’s oath, with Psalm 89 describing that commitment as a covenant.
Acts 2:30Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the …Acts names God’s oath about David’s bodily descendant sitting on his throne and identifies that descendant as the Christ.
John 7:42Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”Both passages concern David’s offspring, and John records the scriptural expectation that the Christ would come from David’s line.
Acts 13:23From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,Both texts connect God’s promise with offspring, though Acts speaks of salvation brought to Israel rather than naming the throne.
1 Chronicles 17:11It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; …Both passages promise that God will establish a son from David’s own line as his royal successor.
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David’s throne is bound to a promise God will not abandon. The certainty in this verse rests on YHWH’s truthfulness and his pledged word.
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